[IMC-US-Tech] Re: [IMC-US] Indymedia election plans

[Sascha Meinrath]

Hi all,

First off, the site looks GREAT!  I'm incredibly impressed by what 
everyone's pulled together and I think we're ready for the next steps.

On Thu, 14 Oct 2004, max wrote:

> I'm ready to start hiding junk on the newswire NOW.  I'm also willing to 
> start working on features.  I would propose that we just start doing 
> this stuff and work out the kinks on the fly.  we've gotten a lot of 
> groundwork covered, and it might be most efficient to see what we still 
> need to be by actually starting to do it, and seeing what we actually 
> need. if we treat the site as live starting tomorrow, and give ourselves 
> a week to pass the URL among relatively small circles, we could check in 
> after five or six days, work out whatever problems we encounter, and 
> then start publicizing, publicizing, publicizing.  how does that 
> timeline sound?

I've been talking with a lot of folks and there's definitely tremendous 
interest in getting IMC-US up-and-running ASAP.  I think we've got the 
expertise and the people-power to deal with whatever might arise -- we 
just need to announce ourselves more widely and make one more invite to 
IMCs to have liaisons participate.

Two next steps that'll get us going and help build momentum:

1. It would be great if someone could start drafting a press release for 
general dissemination (e.g., to allied press, groups, e-mail lists, etc.).

2. An e-mail to key Indymedia lists inviting folks to become involved with 
the IMC-US editorial group, tech group, etc.

Anyone have a few minutes to make these happen?

In solidarity,

--Sascha Meinrath
Urbana-Champaign IMC

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Sascha Meinrath
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